Street Sign Name Game

[AsphaltPlanet]

Nutwood -> Dallas (or Dallas North):


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/TX/I/635/I635_TX_dv_23-75_east_Nov15_24x16.jpg

[oscar]

Dallas North Tollway => East Howell Avenue (Alexandria VA):

[MNHighwayMan]

E Howell Avenue → Line Drive, the street serving Principal Park, the baseball park for Des Moines' minor league.

[oscar]

Line Dr. => Encinal Road (Yuba City CA):

[AsphaltPlanet]

Encinal -> Live Oak:


http://asphaltplanet.ca/CA/I/605/I605_CA_dv_25_north_lg.jpg

[oscar]

Live Oak Ave. => South Kenwood Street (Arlington VA):

[AsphaltPlanet]

Kenwood -> Décarie


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/PQ/A/20/A20_dv_67-5_east_lg.jpg

[oscar]

Aut. Décarie => Evans Lane (Alexandria VA):

[AsphaltPlanet]

Evans -> Ste-Foy (or Charest)


http://www.asphaltplanet.ca/PQ/A/540_QC/A540_dv_5-1_north_Oct14_24x16.jpg

[jbnv]

Y-rule: Charest -> 22nd (Baton Rouge)


22nd - Chippewa by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[7/8]

N Twenty-Second Street to Avenue Dawson (in Dorval, QC)

[paulthemapguy]

Dawson >> Nowell (Joliet, IL)

Nowell is just down the street from a Rowell Av....which I posted earlier, I believe.


2017-09-20_11-14-38 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[7/8]

Nowell Avenue to Le Boulevard (photo taken through a dirty windshield in Montreal, QC)

[jbnv]

Nowell Avenue to Le Boulevard (photo taken through a dirty windshield in Montreal, QC)

Flag on  the play. "Le Boulevard" means "The Boulevard," so "le" is technically not a playable part of the name. I don't think any existing rule covers a situation like this, though. It's almost like someone trying to play "Broadway," except that in that case we can chop off the "-way" and make the play "Broad."

So my ruling is this: "Nowell" is still the current word. We'll discuss this situation and decide what the rule should be for this case.

[oscar]

Nowell Ave. => Leadbeater Street (Alexandria VA):

[jbnv]

On further review, I see that rule 17 can apply here:

Optional words: Words on the lists below may be included or omitted from the title.

- At the beginning of the name: Titles such as "Dr.", "Saint," "Honorable," etc where the rest of the name is someone's name. Prepositions and articles ("of the", etc.)
- At the end of the name: Name suffixes such as "Sr.," "Jr.", etc. The word "memorial."

The problem is that the playable part of the name is only the article "le." "Boulevard" isn't playable because it is the street type. But I'm pretty sure that the name of the road is not "le." Can I go to Montreal and ask "Comment puis-je arriver à 'Le'?" ("How do you get to 'The'?") I'd expect the response to be "Le quoi?" (Or something like that. I've never been conversational in French.)

(Consider an address 100 on "The Boulevard." Would you say the address is "100 The" or "100 The Boulevard"?)

Since Rule 17 makes the article optional, does that mean that the next person can treat Le Boulevard as the empty string and play any letter they want?

[Eth]

I would, in this case, treat "Boulevard" as part of the name. As another example, were I to play the Atlanta street Boulevard (after dropping the quadrant suffix, signed exactly as such), I can't think of any saner way to handle that.

[paulthemapguy]

Nowell Ave. => Leadbeater Street (Alexandria VA):

Leadbeater >> Riverview (Lakehead, CA)


IMG_1346 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[Eth]

Riverview Dr -> Welcome All Rd (south Fulton County, GA)

[MCRoads]

Welcome All Rd. ==> Lindsey St.

https://imgur.com/a/sfpdk

[jbnv]

I would, in this case, treat "Boulevard" as part of the name. As another example, were I to play the Atlanta street Boulevard (after dropping the quadrant suffix, signed exactly as such), I can't think of any saner way to handle that.

I agree. Ruling: In these cases, and only in these cases, the type of road becomes playable. "Le Boulevard" in Montreal can play as L_D or B_D. If you can find a sign naming the aforementioned Atlanta street "The Boulevard," you can play it as T_D; otherwise it will play as B_D.

[oscar]

Lindsey St. => Yorba Linda Boulevard (Yorba Linda CA):

[7/8]

Yorba Linda Boulevard to Avenue Appleton (in Montreal, QC)

[paulthemapguy]

Appleton >> North Point (Redding, CA)


IMG_1329 by Paul Drives, on Flickr

[oscar]

North Point => North Twentieth Street (Arlington VA):